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Building HistoriesThe Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Moder…
Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of…
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La coscienza del paesaggioArmando Dillon e la tutela in Liguria
Per il paesaggio gli anni Cinquanta sono anni di attesa e di lotta. La legge 1497 del 1939 sulle bellezze naturali, offriva all'Italia repubblicana una concezione del paesaggio come nesso inscindibile di natura e storia, e introduceva l'idea della pianificazione paesaggistica. Ma nell'Italia della speculazione edilizia e della nascita del turismo di massa la tutela del paesaggio è tutt'altro c…
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Mies van der RoheA Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition
Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze's acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Coauthored with architect Edward Windhorst, this revised edition, three times the length of the original text, features extensive new research and commentary and draws on the best recent work of American …
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I sintomi dello spazioCorpo architettura città
La descrizione dello spazio architettonico e della città passa, di norma, attraverso una pratica di elencazione delle sue parti costitutive, ponendo dunque al centro dell'osservazione la dimensione materiale degli oggetti alle varie scale. Attraverso quelli che vengono comunemente considerati gli strumenti propri della disciplina, ovvero le tecniche del disegno geometrico misurato, si possono …
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Terror and WonderArchitecture in a Tumultuous Age
For more than twenty years now, Blair Kamin of the Chicago Tribune has explored how architecture captures our imagination and engages our deepest emotions. A winner of the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, Kamin treats his subjects not only as works of art but also as symbols of the cultural and political forces that inspire them. Terror and Wonder gathers the best of Kamin's writings from the past…
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Rappresentare la postmetropoliPercorsi visuali per gli studi urbani
Con la teoria postmetropolitana si consolida una nuova consapevolezza dello spazio. La crescente complessità dei fenomeni urbani porta inevitabilmente a dover ripensare i linguaggi e i codici degli urbanisti. Nonostante la postmetropoli riconosca in Los Angeles la propria città di riferimento, il testo gioca con questa teoria e la spinge all'estremo, usando le concettualizzazioni del modello …
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Kinaesthetic KnowingAesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design
Is all knowledge the product of thought? Or can the physical interactions of the body with the world produce reliable knowledge? In late-nineteenth-century Europe, scientists, artists, and other intellectuals theorized the latter as a new way of knowing, which Zeynep Çelik Alexander here dubs "kinaesthetic knowing." In this book, Alexander offers the first major i…
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La Casa de la MisericordiaUna solución a la pobreza en Guadalajara
Por desgracia, una de las ciudades coloniales de México que mayor devastación ha sufrido sobre su patrimonio histórico y cultural, es la de Guadalajara, capital del estado de Jalisco. La segunda mitad del siglo xix y la primera del xx representan dos etapas en que su configuración arquitectónica sufrió, bajo la premisa de la idea del progreso, terribles cambios que llevaron a la destrucci…
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Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion!!!A Paul Scheerbart Reader
German writer, critic, and theorist Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) died nearly a century ago, but his influence is still being felt today. Considered by some a mad eccentric and by others a visionary political thinker in his own time, he is now experiencing a revival thanks to a new generation of scholars who are rightfully situating him in the modernist pantheon. Glass! Love!! Perpetual Motion…
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Heimliches Berlin
Berlin im Jahr 1924 - damals wie heute: ein Durcheinander. Alle kein Geld, keinen Status. Was zählt ist das Gefühl etwas zu bewegen. Karola flüchtet nach einer Partynacht zu Wendelin aus gutem Hause. Sie will fliehen. Wohin? Raus aus dem schillernden und wilden Berlin aus dieser Zeit?
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